Chapter 28: Total Annihilation

Just like when he first broke through to Transcendent, ice-type spiritual power surging from the Ice Pillar flowed to every part of Chen Mo's body, beginning to strengthen and transform his body.

An unprecedentedly powerful force surged through his blood, limbs, and torso! 【Self-Discipline Shared Object: Shared Challenge +1】

【Self-Discipline Experience Card +1】

At the same time, two messages popped up on the Self-Discipline panel, but Chen Mo had no time to look at them now.

The Black-Backed Ice Wolf pack was already close at hand; he needed to deal with these Black-Backed Ice Wolves first! Moreover, the powerful force surging through his body filled him with a fighting spirit like never before! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Three Black-Backed Ice Wolves launched attacks from three different directions!

They were very fast, and layers of hard, sharp ice crystals simultaneously grew on their claws.

【Ice Claw】

An ability born after the Black-Backed Ice Wolves awakened to Transcendent.

Just when they were still seven or eight meters from Chen Mo.

Boom! Accompanied by a loud report, the air around the giant lion shrieked as a hurricane surged wildly! Countless snow and ice transformed into the sharpest ice blades within the surging gale, sweeping outward in all directions.

【Ice Storm】

Chen Mo unleashed Ice Storm with all his might, consuming a full 20 strands of spiritual power! The powerful Ice Storm instantly covered a ten-meter radius centered on Chen Mo.

The next instant, three Black-Backed Ice Wolves, unable to dodge in time, were swept up over a dozen meters high by the Ice Storm, then flung outward.

These three Black-Backed Ice Wolves spat blood from their mouths, their bodies covered in dense wounds, as though they had just walked out of a meat grinder.

Even after becoming Transcendent creatures, their physiques had improved greatly, but sustaining an attack of this magnitude still killed them instantly.

However, this did not make the Black-Backed Ice Wolf pack feel afraid.

The death of their companions instead further ignited their ferocity. Their glowing green pupils flickered as the alpha wolf led the pack in another charge at Chen Mo! "Roar!"

However, just as the pack closed in, an ear-splitting lion's roar suddenly rang out! This roar was almost tangible; the accumulated snow on the ground burst apart one after another beneath it, transforming into a sky full of snow mist.

This sound was too terrifying. Under the enhancement of 【Roaring Lion】, its volume had exceeded 200 decibels!

Even more terrifying was the domineering power contained within this sound, which made all the Black-Backed Ice Wolves involuntarily feel a sense of invincibility in their hearts.

The next instant, apart from the alpha wolf, whose eyes were slightly dazed and who did not drop to the ground, every other wolf in the pack collapsed! They let out painful howls as blood flowed from their ear canals.

The alpha wolf was also significantly affected, feeling dizzy and lightheaded, its brain somewhat dazed.

Yet just as it recovered, it saw the Lion King not far away transform into a bolt of white lightning, charging madly toward it.

Fast! Too fast! The alpha wolf's first instinct was to flee, but after only two steps, a tremendous force struck it from behind.

Then—he felt himself take flight!

He was violently sent flying over a dozen meters!

Chen Mo's strength was now comparable to a giant elephant's, and combined with speed far exceeding a cheetah's, the kinetic energy generated in that instant was simply terrifying! The alpha wolf had barely landed when it despairingly discovered that the giant lion had already appeared before its eyes once more, its suffocatingly violent paw swinging down again. The alpha wolf died peacefully, barely feeling any pain before it lost its life.

With the alpha wolf dead, the wolves that had just awakened from the lion's roar instantly lost their will to fight and scattered in all directions.

Chen Mo activated Sprint Mode and gave chase.

These Black-Backed Ice Wolves had made too much noise earlier.

In less than 5 seconds, he caught up to one of the Black-Backed Ice Wolves and swatted it dead with a single slap!

Then the Ice Lion erupted with astonishing speed, pursuing another Black-Backed Ice Wolf. In less than 3 minutes.

All 7 Black-Backed Ice Wolves were killed by him.

As for the ordinary Black-Backed Jackals, Chen Mo let them escape.

Killing them now served no purpose.

They were potential investments; only after they awakened to Transcendent would they be worth killing.

"Squeak!" (Scared this little mouse to death!)

The Ice Crystal Mouse let out a long breath.

When the wolf pack had charged in just now, it was almost scared to death. But to its surprise, the battle ended in the blink of an eye.

"Squeak!" (The Great King is so amazing!) After confirming it was safe, the little fellow scurried quickly to Chen Mo's side and began expertly buttering him up.

Unfortunately, Chen Mo couldn't understand it, or he would have surely told the little white mouse to say more if it could talk.

Elsa, standing to the side, was dumbfounded.

She had only just defeated one Black-Backed Ice Wolf, and her younger brother had already annihilated the entire pack, including the wolf king.

She knew her Lion King brother was strong, but she never imagined he was strong to this extent!

After killing all the awakened Black-Backed Ice Wolves, Chen Mo finally had time to examine the changes in his body following his advancement.

【Frost Young Lion (Male)】

【Level: Mid Transcendent】

【Constitution: 32→49】

【Agility: 34→53】

【Strength: 32→48】

【Spirit: 22→35】

【Abilities: Ice Storm, Ice Illusion Art】

【Overall Combat Power: 332~430】

Advancing from Low Transcendent to Mid Transcendent, Chen Mo's strength, agility, constitution, and other attributes all received comprehensive improvements, and his overall combat power increased by nearly a full fold! Although Low Transcendent and Mid Transcendent were separated by only one minor realm, the gap between them was still enormous.

Chen Mo continued observing himself and discovered that the spiritual power within the Ice Pillar had actually grown to 281 strands! "These 6 Ice Sand Fruits actually gave me nearly 200 strands of ice-type spiritual power!"

Chen Mo found it somewhat hard to believe.

Compared to the flesh of Transcendent creatures and Transcendent Crystals, the effect of Ice Sand Fruits was simply astonishingly good.

Chen Mo felt that his focus needed to shift going forward, putting the search for "divine medicine" first! In addition to the improvements in physical attributes and spiritual power, advancing to Mid Transcendent also awakened Chen Mo to a new ability—Ice Illusion Art.

This ability was related to the spirit, that is, mental power.

Its effect was to use ice-type spiritual power to influence or even manipulate the minds of other living beings, creating illusions.

This ability is still very practical, whether used in battle or for fleeing.

"Roar!"

Sensing the surging ice-element spiritual power within her body, Aisha involuntarily let out an excited low growl.

Because it also bears the title 【Gluttonous Lion】, it perfectly digested the ice-element spiritual power contained in the ice sand fruit.

Chen Mo observed a bit and discovered that Aisha's ice pill now contains nearly 50 strands of ice-element spiritual power!

Xiao Bai's digestive efficiency is much lower, even less than one-third of Chen Mo's.

Most of the energy of this ice sand fruit was wasted.

Regarding this, Chen Mo felt a bit regretful but had no regrets.

After all, being able to discover this ice sand fruit tree, the ice crystal mouse can be said to have made an indispensable contribution.

"Perhaps... we could focus on cultivating Xiao Bai next?"

Chen Mo thought silently in his heart.

If Xiao Bai's treasure-hunting ability were enhanced, it would certainly help him better search for the "Divine Medicine"! Unfortunately, this promotion increased the self-discipline panel's number of challenges that self-discipline partners can accept.

If there were one more self-discipline slot, Xiao Bai could join in the self-discipline as well!

(End of chapter)